CVs and Interviews

Wishing you a Merry Christmas & Happy 2009. We will be back in Jan!!

Workshop will be held in Dublin on 18th October. For more information on the workshop and the Career Coaches leading the workshop read CV & Career Workshop. You can also email paul@measurability.ie

Paul Mullan (www.measurability.ie) and Janes Downes (www.clearviewcoachgroup.com) are two of Irelands leading Career Coaches. They have developed a career workshop which will be held on 18th October in Dublin 2.

The workshop will cover two key areas

CAREER CHANGE

This programme will teach you the 8 Golden Steps in this process of discovery:

Some of these steps involve a healthy measure of introspection, soul-searching, self-exploration. By taking these steps, you have sensitised yourself to your true values, goals, needs, motivators and talents.

Then armed with the results of this ‘self-research’, you now turn outwards by engaging in some serious job-research and prepare to “face the market” and learn the skills involved in creating the right message and how to market yourself effectively.

MARKETING TOOLS – CV, COVER LETTER & JOB SEARCH STRATEGIES

This section of the workshop is about helping participant reach their career goal. This will need an innovative approach maximizing the potential of existing tools like the CV and Cover Letter. It will require creativity when approaching the job market with an understanding key job search strategies.

You will get an new insight into CV and Cover Letters moving them away from career summary to impact marketing documents. You will also get an insight into proactive job search strategies which will help you drive forward towards your careers goal. This section is also about motivating you into action and navigating career hurdles or roadblocks.

For more information email info@measurability.ie. CONTACT NOW to book a place!!

CV – Job Search Strategies – Newspapers

CV looking good so now all you need is to find the jobs and employers. There are many job search strategies available for jobseekers in Ireland. This fall into two categories -proactive strategies and reactive strategies. Searching newspapers would fall into the reactive strategies category. Although newspaper advertising is in decline you can still find many key employers advertising their jobs through this medium. I guess the good thing about the newspaper adverts is that you can just pick it up without the need of a computer.

There are a number of key publications if using this strategy.

Irish Independent – Although the paper carries job adverts on other days Thursday is the important day to read the Indo as they have a Jobs & Careers supplement. Loads of great jobs and excellent career articles.

Irish Times – Friday is Jobs day for the Times.

Sunday Papers – The Sunday Tribune, The Sunday Times and The Sunday Independent. Personally I do not think that there is anything new on a Sunday that you cannot find in the Indo on a Thursday and Times on a Friday.

Another article about Job Search Strategies.

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WORKING FROM HOME IN IRELAND

If you are interested in working for yourself or working from home you should visit Virtual Assistants Limited (VAL) – Working from home in Ireland. This site supports individuals setting up a business venture from home or seeking to expand their current projects or contracts. VAL offers marketing, training, finance support and much more. VAL supports individuals across Ireland – Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Waterford, Galway and other counties.

HOME WORKING – NO MORE M50

I think this is a great idea as I am a great promoter of Work Life Balance. Occasionally I am parked on the M50 during peak traffic and I feel the pain of all the commuters. Fortunately I work from home and commute to work in my pj’s.

Businesses like Virtual Assistants Limited will certainly make life easier for home workers and open up a whole new CV market for me – designing CV’s for home workers.

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